See how much money your school receives for workload reduction
Curious how much money your school gets to deal with the workload? You can now see that with the model in Excel. The unions recently concluded the workload agreement together with education minister Arie Slob: primary schools will receive 237 million euros extra next school year to combat the high workload. The school teams can now get started to see how they will use the money.
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The amount -237 million euros- will increase to 430 million euros in school year 2021/2022. In the tool below (the Excel download) you can see exactly how much money your school receives. Roughly speaking, an average school of 225 pupils will receive approximately 35 euros extra from next school year. This amount will increase and from school year 2021/2022 it will be a structural amount of 65 thousand euros.
Student number
What do you have to do to find out how much money your school is getting? Download it Excel model and enter the brin number of your school there. The model then calculates how much budget the school receives to deal with the high workload. The amount of the budget depends on the number of students on 1 October of the year previous school year. *For example: For 2018/2019, the number of students (of the main and branch) as of 1 October 2017 is therefore taken into account. The amount for this school year has been set at 155,55 euros per student. These extra resources are structural and are provided through the budget for personnel and labor market policy. The agreements regarding the workload agreement provide that after an interim evaluation / political decision-making in 2020, the budget for tackling workload will structurally increase from 1 to 2021 million euros as of 237 August 430. This increases the amount per student from the 2021/2022 school year to approximately 285,00 euros per student. Do you have questions? Mail to: meldpunt@werkdrukpo.nl This tool also looks at the level of brin. This means that students at a secondary location are allocated to the main location.
Schools can decide for themselves how they will spend the budget. At one school there may be a need for extra PE teachers, as they did at the Columbus School in Almere. Other schools will prefer teaching assistants or some other way to handle their administration. Curious how other schools counter the workload? Download this folder with practical examples provided by the education unions from the primary education front.
Analyze
It is now up to the school team to enter into a conversation with the school leader in order to be able to use the money. As a teacher or supporter you can analyze where the workload comes from. On this fact sheet of the ministry you will find useful websites that can help you with the analysis and there is more information about the process that every school must go through. Start a conversation with colleagues and try to discuss the bottlenecks and solutions. Based on that conversation, the school leader draws up a spending plan with goals to reduce the workload. The staff section of the participation council must approve this plan.
Download: Excel model extra resources for tackling workload 2018/2019
Download: Factsheet with more information about the workload agreement and the process that schools now have to go through.
Download: Leaflet with practical examples of how schools can spend the money to reduce workload.
